On Thursday 29 December 2011 08:15:40 Nikolaos Milas wrote: > I am using postfix, amavisd-new, spam assassin, clamav on a > gateway system. > > A short question (I know it's a bit off-topic but I know that > people here run similar systems): > > I've read how to release and/or forward quarantined mail. But > can I read the quarantined mails in situ (i.e. in the quarantine > directory)? Can I use some utility to display it in human- > readable form and examine details (headers, subject, etc.) so I > can decide whether it should be released or not?
What did you try? If the quarantine is a maildir, each message is in a separate file. Any pager or viewer or editor can view it. I like mc(1), which has file management bundled with a viewer and editor. If you need more than the plaintext payload, such as MIME decoding and/or HTML rendering (the latter might not be a good idea with spam and virus suspects), you can open the maildir in any MUA which can read a maildir. (You might want to open the maildir in a read-only mode, so as to avoid moving the messages and possibly upsetting the amavisd-new quarantine mechanism.) And of course the amavisd-new list would be a better place to follow up. -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ -- system administration and consulting Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject:
